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Reading List for the L3 Leadership Incubator

Here is a suggested reading list for the participants in your L3 Leadership Incubator. There are books listed for each section. Recommended books are those that are at the top of the list. Suggested are books the facilitator may read as background, or in some cases be assigned to the whole group.

Personal Vitality

Recommended for Participants:

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Arbinger Institute, ISBN: 1576750949.
This is one that people really love. In a story format it talks about the importance of seeing oneself clearly and talks about how to see people in terms of relationships, not objects to be manipulated. Related material is used in Session Six: Character.

Recommended for Facilitators, Suggested for Participants:

How Great a Flame! Contemporary Lessons from The Wesleyan Revival, James Logan.
A great little book for Methodists that looks at their Wesleyan roots and living out the means of grace.

The Ten Faces of Innovation: Ideo’s Strategies for Beating the Devil’s Advocate & Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization, Tom Kelly. ISBN: 0385512074.
Talks about ways we can move toward becoming Innovators by looking at ten roles people play as they create and critique new ideas.

Team:

Recommended for Participants: (Courageous Leadership is geared more to pastors. If your group is primarily laity, you might use Teach Your Team to Fish.)

Courageous Leadership, Bill Hybels, ISBN: 031024823X.
In this classic book on leadership Bill Hybles, Pastor of Willowcreek, shares keen insights on being a leader.

Recommended for Facilitators, Suggested for Participants:

Teach Your Team to Fish: Using Ancient Wisdom for Inspired Teamwork, Laurie Beth Jones.
Shares the principles of how Jesus created his team.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick M. Lencioni.
Teaches how to create a vital team.

Context:

Recommended for Participants:

NextChurch.Now: Creating New Faith Communities, revised edition with DVD, Craig Kennet Miller. ISBN: 0881774197
By focusing on those who are outside of the church, congregations can learn how to create new faith communities to connect people to faith in Jesus Christ.

Recommended for Facilitators, Suggested for Participants:

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman.
A great read for getting a picture of the future and the impact of new technology on the way we work, relate, and innovate. If you are doing a Cabinet level Incubator this would be a must read as well.

Vision:

Recommended for Participants:

An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind, Erwin Raphael McManus.
Challenges the church to move from being an institution to becoming a movement.

Recommended for Facilitators, Suggested for Participants:

Visioneering: God's Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Personal Vision, Andy Stanley.
Gives a clear perspective of how to create a vision that lasts.

Strategy:

Recommended for Participants:

Entrepreneurial Faith: Launching Bold Initiatives to Expand God's Kingdom
Walt Kallestad, Kirbyjon Caldwell, Paul Sorensen.